Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time,remains one of the !andmark volumes in scientific writing of our time.But for years readers have asked for a more accessible formulation of its key concepts--the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, and the history and future of the universe.

Professor Hawking's respond'is this new work that will guide non-scientists everywhere in theongoing search for the tantalizing secrets at the heart of time and space……

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

FOREWORD

 1. Thinking About the Universe

 2. Our Evolving Picture of the Universe

 3. The Nature of a Scientific Theory

 4. Newton's Universe

 5. Relativity

 6. Curved Space

 7. The Expanding Universe

 8. The Big Bang, Black Holes, and the Evolution of the Universe

 9. Quantum Gravity

10. Wormholes and Time Travel

11. The Forces of Nature and the Unification of Physics

12. Conclusion

ALBERT EINSTEIN

GALILEO GALILEI

ISAAC NEWTON

GLOSSARY

INDEX